That just lists people who’ve registered their home location near you.

Not all edits in an area will be by people who’s “home location” is nearby.

You might get a better idea of an area’s edits by using the “history” tab, e.g.: osm.org/browse/changesets?bbox=149.0984%2C-35.3997%2C149.3548%2C-35.2836

(an improved history tab is in the pipeline)

“Just discovered OpenStreetMap in February 2013”

Tch - where have you been?

Welcome to the project.

Also, the RSS feed is aggregated to http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/ along with a lot of other content.

Interesting point.

Nobody’s really sure what the diary is for :)

It’s just there.

A lot of people use it to talk about any interesting issues that come up when mapping. Or to celebrate when they complete a suburb or something.

Not bad at all

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Strewth

Nice work!

Interesting road numbering scheme Sri Lanka seems to have.

Sounds like a good start to a community.

(Google translate to the rescue)

Intriguing approach to image recognition.

I’m sure you can get a lot more performance out of it with not much effort.

Of course, having said that, it would be great if someone were to find a neat way of making gameification work for OSM. I’ve been throwing a few ideas around myself but haven’t come up with anything totally solid (and have all my development time being spent on other projects).

Many have been throwing around ideas like this for a while. Problem is, if you don’t get it right, people will just “game the system”. And it’s very difficult to get it right. A naive way of doing it would give people points for mapping things - but if a mapper were highly driven by points alone (kind of the point of gamification) they would just add thousands of benches in a park or something, getting thousands of points. Which is clearly not what we want.

Getting “points” to correlate only to actual valuable work is very difficult and anyone playing OSM solely as a game will very quickly find & exploit any cracks in the system where you can gain as many points as possible without doing much useful work.

It’s tricky.

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Extremely nice work - well done!

I don’t speak german but I know exactly what this post’s about. And yes it annoys me too.

It would be nice to have a well put together wiki page a la osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer to point people who insist on doing sidewalk-tagging towards.

Hah

Well are you sure you saved them then? Because the only edits in the area I can see from you last week are edits to the boundaries:

osm.org/browse/changeset/14407967 osm.org/browse/changeset/14408021 osm.org/browse/changeset/14408250

I can’t find you previously adding those buildings or footways.

(Also, careful with changeset comments like “Canada world domination” - they tend to ring alarm bells to a potential an edit war or vandalism)

I think the standard response is “patches welcome”.

Are you sure these aren’t features that were later touched and tainted by a user who didn’t agree to the CT, and thus the features got redacted?